Religious Issue In Education Aid May Be Settled
Washington reports a House Commerce subcommittee discusses a compromise to allow 35 million dollars in federal health aid for use by private parochial and public schools. The Barden plan seeks 200 million annually for education but faces Catholic leaders' criticism. Monsignor Cartwright condemns Eleanor Roosevelt’s stance as anti Catholic. Cardinal Spellman’s remarks are cited as controversial.
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Washington
House
Barden
Jeader
Eleanor Roosevelt
John K. Cartwright
St Matthew's Cathedral
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Roosevelt
Msgr
Cartwright
House Labor Committee
Rent Act Ruled Unconstitutional by Chicago Judge
Federal district Judge Hien R. Shaw ruled the 1945 Rent Control Act unconstitutional. He invalidated the act citing the clause allowing states and other divisions to end it by local option as an unlawful delegation of Congress powers to other government agencies.
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Chicago
Hien R. Shaw
States
Pleasure Boat Split by Freighter Tragedy Near Boston
A freighter sliced a pleasure boat in two near Boston, killing Mary Di Giovanni of Waltham and injuring 19 others. The Marie S. passenger craft was hit by the United States Lines’ American Veteran inbound from Philadelphia in clear harbor waters. Witnesses among Sunday excursionists saw vessels assist passengers and crew as the crash left many in a dazed state.
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Boston
Coast Guard
Mary di Giovanni
Waltham
Marie S
United States Lines
Philadelphia
Marie
Prasengers
Mother Teams With Son In Robbery
Chicago police captured Regina Matczak 42 and her 17 year old son Jerome after they beat and robbed a taxi driver of 11.24 dollars. Regina said she feared violence and made him promise not to shoot. She said she was penniless with five children and that Jerome committed the theft.
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Chicago
Regina Matczak
Jerome
Maczak
Marczak
Man Jailed For Shooting Sheriff In Tennessee
Crozaville, Tenn. A five year old carpenter is held without bond on two charges of assault with a deadly weapon in the shooting of Cumberland County Sheriff Lawrence Wyatt. Sheriff Wyatt was reported to be injured after attackers used tear gas bombs and drove from his house in Ozone. McCuiston surrendered to state troopers after being driven away late Saturday night.
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Crozaville
Tenn
Cumberland County
Lawrence Wyatt
Sherif Wyatt
Tom McCuiston
Ozone
MecCuiston
Operation Tomcat Marauder Turns Mortal Combat On Sawdust
A turf war unfolds as Marauder the bird dives on Sawdust during chow, while ground forces fail to identify the attacker. Sawdust, an old campaigner with many hash marks, defends at a shop bench. The aerial threat and ground defenses clash in a tense, ongoing encounter.
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BU Maples
John J
Barker
Sawdust
Belnre
Marauder
Atra
Okinawa braces for second blow from deadly typhoon
A second fierce Pacific typhoon threatens Okinawa after a savage storm damaged the Big Island. An American girl, seven, was killed among 1,000 U.S. wives and children, with 16 Americans wounded. Army and Air Force units fought debris, set up shelters, and guarded against looting as damage mounted beyond 10 million dollars from the prior strike.
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Tokyo
Okinawa
Big Island
Japan
Army
Air Force
20Th Air Force
Navy
Guam
Hospitals Testing Aid Act Challenge Filed in Tennessee
Twenty one hospitals and health units filed a declaratory judgment suit in Nashville to test the 1949 act allowing Tennessee to issue bonds for Hill Burton Act hospital construction. Defendants include Governor Browning and state officials. Complainants name multiple county hospitals and health centers across the state.
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Nashville
Tenn
Twentyone
Tennessee
Thomas A. Shriver
Guv. Gordon Browning
Roy H. Beeler
A. H. Hutcheson
W. N. Estes
James Cummings
Clarence Evane
Cedric Hunt
Bedford County Hospital
Blount County Memorial Hospital
Bradley County Health Unit
East Tennessee
Ouster Sought for Four Bledsoe County Magistrates
Ouster petitions filed in Chan cery Court demand removal of four Bledsoe County Court members Squires Robert Brana Wendell Ault Shelton Greer and Otis Seals. Petitioners accuse three of wrongdoing in county contracts and seek injunctions to bar the judges from acting while the case proceeds. The four took office under a fast legislature act.
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Pikeville
Tenn
Chancery Cort
Bledsoe
Seventeen Die In Traffic Accidents In Tennessee
Seventeen persons were killed on streets and highways across Tennessee this past week. Nashville and Davidson County led with five fatalities, Knox County followed with three. Memphis and Chattanooga reported no deaths.
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Associated Preas
Tennessee
Nashville
Davidson County
Knox County
Memphis
Chattanooga
Cathy Wilty Returns in Wash Tubres Comic Strip
Cathy Wilty, the beloved little girl whose dad won his fight to conquer alcoholism, returns in a new Wash Tubres story full of human interest. Millions of readers have followed Cathy, and this installment promises emotional appeal and heartwarming moments.
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Cathy Wilty
Wash Tubres
Cathy
Bill Would Make It Crime To Hide Aid On Contracts
Senator Ferguson of Michigan plans a bill to criminalize hiding aid in securing government contracts. The proposal would require a contract bureau filing, naming commissions and fees paid, other help from officials, and aid from former government staff. The move follows suspensions of two Army generals amid a five percenters probe.
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Washington
Ferguson
R-Mich
Ferguson and Hin
Rec Cent
Senate
Snow
Alsn
Army
Alden H. Waitt
Chemical Corpa
Merman Feldman
Michigan
Bristol Battles Over Rent Control
Bristol Tenn faces a Tuesday hearing before the Mayor and Commissioner on rent decontrol. Area Rent Director Jn sep A Caldwell defends tenants right to organize, countering charges the rent control office pushed propaganda.
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Bristol
Bristol, Tenn
Tenneessee
Ad Fy
Rent Control Office
Jnsep A. Caldwell
Street Scenes and a Temperate Exchange
A fragment describes a street scene with a girl asking for water, calling it the temperature flusa. An editor notes the term means temperature lass and a glass for cooking. A young man is questioned about his age, replying 12 as another speaker denies asking about shoe size.
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Nate
Lass
Truman seeks $1.45 billion in foreign arms aid
President Truman signed the North Atlantic treaty today and urged Congress to back a $1.45 billion foreign arms program. He said the pact is a historic step toward a peaceful world but warned more is needed to counter Russian aggression and keep freedom worldwide. Senator Vandenberg floated a stopgap arms plan until broader strategy forms.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Senate
White House
Senator Vandenberg
Michigan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Five Die In Crossing Crash At Waverly Tennessee
Five people all from Waverly were killed in a grade crossing collision near the rally limits when a Memphis Nashville streamliner rammed their car. Sheriff Trent Westbrook said the car was dragged about half a mile along the tracks before stopping. The victims were Herman D. Ralston 24 Frank Phillips 20 Sylvester Davis 23 Jack Coleman 16 and Clyde Coleman 8.
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Waverly. Tenn
Memphis
Trent Westbrook
Waverly
Herman D. Ralston
Frank Phillips
Sylvester Davis
Jack 1. Coleman
Clyde Coleman
Reward Offered For Vandalism Of Ball Park Car
The Times-News offers 25 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of those responsible for vandalism to the umpire’s car at the ball park last Saturday night. Witnesses are urged to come forward to stop the acts of bad sportsmanship and restore baseball’s orderly conduct in Kingsport.
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Ball Park
Kingsport
Times-News
Senator Supports Mystery Witness in UN Terror Plot Claims
Washington reports Senator Ste Garrai questions eight U S officials who attacked a mystery witness linked to UN paranoia claims. McCarran cites potential danger as House HUAC releases Mary Jane Keeney report accusing her of courier duties for the Communist party. Witness No 8 testified behind closed doors, possibly Mr X, and alleged Communist influence within the UN.
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Washington
AFP
Ste Garrai
D-New
United States
U. N
HK Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
McCarran
Byron Price
United Nations
Communist Party
Tennessee Plan Allows Voters to Ease Amending Rules
Tennessee voters will ballot on Nov 8 a constitutional reform package from the Frierson Commission. Proposals include allowing two thirds in one session to send amendments to a public vote or call a convention to ratify proposed changes. A broader option would empower a convention to revise or replace parts or the entire 1870 constitution, including amending taxing rules.
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Clifton Paisleyville
Tenn
Tennessee
Frierson Constitutional Revision Commission
General Assembly
Ore
Friersen Commission
Al Michaelsen Succumbs In Ohio
Alfred Michaelsen a former Kingsport resident and Mead Corporation chief accountant died Sunday evening at Bethesda Hospital in Cincinnati Ohio. He had been in Chillicothe for three years serving as Mead Corporation controller. He was walking with a child to an eye doctor when stricken and taken to a hospital. He is survived by his wife two daughters and his mother.
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Alfred Michaelsen
Kingsport
Mead Corporation
Bethesda Hospital
Cincinnati
Obio
Michaelsen
Chillicothe
Cincinnanet
Civitan Club
Kinnick Named To U T Council
Kin nick newly appointed principal of Dobyns Bennett High School Kingsport elected to the General Alumni Association Executive Council of the University of Tennessee for 1949 50. Kinnick is president elect of the College of Education section. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1940.
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Knoxville
Roy
Kinnick
Dobyns-Bennett High School
Kingsport
General Alumni Association
University of Tennessee
College of Education
Klan Chief Out On Bail In Records Stolen Claim
Birmingham scene reports Klansman William Hugh Morris released on a 590 dollar bond to produce secret Klan records for grand duty inspection. Morris claims the records were stolen last Wednesday and declined to identify suspects when quizzed by newsmen. In other notes, a Kingsport Times-News column misidentified Dr. Sherrod as deceased while he remains head of East Tennessee State College and plans to resign this fall with Burgin Dossett named as a possible successor.
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Birmingham
Ala
Ku Klux Law
William Hugh Morris
Morris
Kingsport Times-News
C. C. Sherrad
East Tennessee State College
Sherrod
Dr. Sherrod
County Body Curtails Rent Controls Abolished
Sullivan County Court abolished rent controls amid doubts about its jurisdiction as Judge T R Bandy noted the issue. A pre Court budget session with Holston Valley Community Hospital proposed 25000 for each of two county hospitals serving indigent patients outside city limits. The panel had sought 22500 and initial allocations were 8000 for Holston and 4000 for King Mountain Memorial in Bristol. About 350 to 400 residents watched as Judge Handy read the budget item by item. The court will continue work on the morning’s recommendation.
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Blountville
T. R. Bandy
Sullivan County
Holaton Valley Community Hospital
Holston Valley
Handy
Elderly Romeo Protects Wife
Virginia sheriff says the 57 year old swindler Glenn Bill or Ernest L Torrence known as the love pirate admitted one wife in Cincinnati and kept his loyalty to his current wife Mildred Torrence while facing charges. Arrested after a chase near the Va Tenn line on July 18, officers found love letters and documents linking him to about $20,000 taken from lonely women. He had previously posed as a suitor and used an altered car registration in La Salle. One victim reported $2,500 for arrangements that never occurred. Further details withheld pending investigation and a follow up in Fries, Virginia.
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Virginia
Davis Wytheville
Romeo
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Georgia
Scott County
Sherif Pendleton
Glenn Bill
Ernest L Torrence
Cincinnati
Ohio
Mildred Torrence
la Salle
Pendleton
Torrence
Hill
Tennessee
Scottounty
C. G. Cunningham
Cunningham
Fries
Solunar Tables by John Alden Knight
The schedule quotes John Alden Knight's Solunar Tables for planning days of hunting and fishing. Major periods begin at shown times, lasting up to two hours, with minor periods shorter. Eastern Standard Time notes and river stage readings are provided for Cherokee Lake and Douglas Reservoir with projected drops by midnight Tuesday.
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John Alden Knight
Cherokee Lake
Douglas Reservoir
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